Quotes About Federalism

I don't trust that the big-business part of our coalition is ever going to defend federalism and argue against regulatory capture. I don't trust that populists are going to defend religious liberty and the rights of creedal minorities.

At no time during the period intervening between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of the new government were the leaders in Federalism certain that the agrarian party, which had opposed the Constitution, might not render the instrument ineffectual by securing possession of Congress.

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

In international affairs the same formula of federalism will apply: self-determination for every group in regard to matters which concern it much more vitally than they concern others, and government by a neutral authority embracing rival groups in all matters in which conflicting interests of groups come into play.

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

That's what the founding fathers intended, that most decisions be made at the state level, not at the federal level.

At school, everything was left v. right, communists and fascists; what interested me was the discussion of identity, autonomy, federalism, and community.

Centrally, I cannot interfere in states.

I am confident that Jeff Sessions will do his part to restore the delicate balance between the states and the federal government that the Founders envisioned.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for it as a state.

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.

I think it is time for a radical federalism in this country, where people trust innovation coming from the local level and ramp that up.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

Now is the time for all Alaskans to come together and reach out with our core message of taking power from the federal government and bringing it back home to the people.

Woodrow Wilson would write approvingly in his 1908 book, Constitutional Government in the United States, that "the War between the States established… this principle, that the federal government is, through its courts, the final judge of its own powers." 26 This was the Jeffersonians' greatest fear. Thanks to Lincoln's war, states' rights would no longer perform its most important function: protecting the citizens of the states from federal judicial tyranny.

My general plan would be to make the states one as to every thing connected with foreign nations, and several as to every thing purely domestic. But with all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing or that ever did exist.

The sheer size of the country, the mixed ethnic, religious, and racial composition of the people, and the diffuseness of power under our federal system have all tended to blunt or minimize citizen-versus-state conflicts and to throw citizen-versus-citizen conflicts into high relief.

En materia política, indicamos, López Obrador está fortaleciendo la presidencia a expensas de los otros poderes de la Unión y también del federalismo.

I don't have a problem with the Centre sanctioning funds to any state. However, when this is done for narrow political considerations, it damages the federal fabric mandated by the Constitution.

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.

EPA's Affordable Clean Energy rule (ACE), would restore the states' proper role under the Clean Air Act and our system of federalism. Our plan would allow states to establish standards of performance that meet EPA emissions guidelines.

Weakening the federal structure essentially hampers our unity in diversity, India's biggest strength.